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Palace belies Xi-Duterte verbal fishing agreement
Malacañang on Friday denied there was a verbal deal between President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping, allowing China to fish in the West Philippine Sea. “There is no truth to the speculation of a purported ...
- April 24, 2021
Duterte: Chinese incursion 'abhorrent'
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said the government finds abhorrent the harassment of Filipino boats by Chinese coast guard ships in the Ayungin Shoal last week. Speaking at a regional summit with the Association of ...
- November 23, 2021
China's fishing fleet part of Beijing's drive to become a maritime power: First word
Whenever Chinese fishing vessels land in a major fishing dispute with another country, the standard rationale of China’s foreign ministry is that its fishermen are only exercising their rights to fish in traditional fishing ...
- April 24, 2021
Duterte airs concern over Chinese vessels
President Rodrigo Duterte met with Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian on Thursday to raise concern over the presence of Chinese vessels at the Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea. The National ...
- March 26, 2021
Duterte won't pull out PH vessels in disputed sea
President Rodrigo Duterte said he would not order the withdrawal of Philippine vessels in the West Philippine Sea despite the lingering presence of Chinese vessels in the disputed waters. Duterte made the statement in ...
- May 15, 2021
PH not giving up an inch of its territory to China
Malacañang on Friday said the Philippines would not give up an inch of its territory to China, clarifying that President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that he was indebted to China because of its vaccine donations does not ...
- May 1, 2021
'West Philippine Sea' appellation: Aquino's brainwashing trick, and a curse
Disregarding international conventions and practice, President Benigno Aquino 3rd in 2012, on his own, renamed as the "West Philippine Sea" a segment of the South China Sea. It is a term that would hobble our efforts to ...
- June 9, 2021
PH won't give up WPS claim - Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday vowed never to give up the Philippines’ sovereign rights over the West Philippine Sea (WPS) though he considers China a “good friend.” “China, let it be known, is a good friend and ...
- April 30, 2021
Reef row: US plot in its 're-pivot' to Asia
US President Joe Biden couldn’t have picked more anti-China officials than US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. The two were at the head of former President Obama’s so-called ...
- April 7, 2021
'New baselines law needed to assert PH sea rights'
A new baselines law should be passed to enable the Philippines to better assert its rights in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said on Thursday. During a virtual media forum, Roque ...
- July 9, 2021